Physics 4Q03 Lecture 19: This lecture evaluates the Casimir energy for the vacuum fluctuations of a field between two plates on which the field vanishes, showing that it is UV finite. Along the way there is (here and in lecture 18) a discussion of regularization schemes and what class of regularizations make physical sense. The Casimir energy calculation provides a concrete example where a non-cutoff regularization is useful.
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